Selected Poems of Salvador Espriu Quotes

“Tree

I dreamt you invisible majesty
hovering above the face of all things.
Rooted in the pain of ash,
mere man, I bore you, sepulchre,
dead father, silently, within,
called out to you the windswept words
of lost millennia, words that kindle rage.
You never answered me. You left me
fearing night, hidden fire, leaping flame,
tree God in the night.”
― Salvador Espriu, Selected Poems of Salvador Espriu

“I'm afraid of an extra face
in the mirror and sudden
nights with voices, the deep
certainty of things.
(from Parca)”
― Salvador Espriu, Selected Poems of Salvador Espriu